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In reply to the discussion: Trump attorneys haven't found classified document former president referred to on tape [View all]BumRushDaShow
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Thank you for the information However, I don't understand ...
... how NARA - or the DoD for that matter - doesn't know EXACTLY what is still missing. It boggles my mind that there isn't a better tracking methodology for highly classified information. I would imagine every single paper that goes to anyone's desk anywhere would be tracked, with a chain of custody, so it is known who has every copy of every bit of sensitive material at all times, and ESPECIALLY the stuff that has to be viewed in a SCIF.
... how NARA - or the DoD for that matter - doesn't know EXACTLY what is still missing. It boggles my mind that there isn't a better tracking methodology for highly classified information. I would imagine every single paper that goes to anyone's desk anywhere would be tracked, with a chain of custody, so it is known who has every copy of every bit of sensitive material at all times, and ESPECIALLY the stuff that has to be viewed in a SCIF.
The "chain of custody" thing is generally associated with the document owner/originator agency. Note what the name "NARA" stands for - "National Archives and Records Administration". They basically become the "storage" entity for government records deemed by an agency as a record. Part of their "About" describes what they are doing - https://www.archives.gov/about/info/whats-a-record.html
So when it comes to "classified" documents, it's really the job of the agency that created and classified it, to keep tabs on the chain of custody.
The PROBLEM is when you get a criminal elected to office who then appoints (with the blessing of a GOP Senate at the time), more criminals in positions who are either ignorant of the procedures or who are deliberately ignoring them.
I am an environmental chemist. Laboratories keep better track of samples - dirt to the layman - than it would seem our most sensitive material is tracked. Everyone knows who has that sample container and what is being done to it because it is tracked. It is tracked from collection in the field, all throughout transport, as it arrives at the lab, and within the lab, all the way to its final deposition when testing has been concluded.
I was a federal analytical chemist whose worksheets had potential to, and in some cases, have been presented as evidence in legal proceedings. Chain of custody for samples to the analysts was a huge thing, so trust me, I know.
NARA would periodically, based on my agency's Records Control Schedule, be given my BOUND diary and analytical workbooks, as well as completed worksheets as well. Samples also had a schedule for preservation and/or destruction.
Each agency, based on general criteria, designates certain types of documents/records to be archived for some "x" amount of time, and after that, they are to be destroyed. There are a tiny number of documents that are kept into perpetuity.
And another thing? If someone who works for the orange pustule says they can't find the document why would anyone believe them? They're paid to lie. They've been caught lying, particularly in this case. So if they say they can't locate it, either they are lying or he has sold or destroyed it.
Well I think that is a given, which is what I posted above when it comes to who might have been appointed by 45 in key positions within many agencies.
For example, what had been widely reported early in that administration, were the issues with Kushner's security clearance and how it was delayed for VALID REASONS, but was eventually pushed through anyway thanks to a carefully-positioned appointee.
In that case, the "handwriting" became HUGE swaths of graffiti written all over many walls!
Don't know what else to tell ya!
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Trump attorneys haven't found classified document former president referred to on tape [View all]
BumRushDaShow
Jun 2023
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Saying he couldn't show it to them (in the tape) was a tease to jack up the price.
NH Ethylene
Jun 2023
#13
i dont understand how the trove at mal isnt probably cause to search every damn 1 of his properties.
mopinko
Jun 2023
#37
Might be why DOJ asked for his Saudi biz records A MONTH AFTER THEY ASKED FOR THE IRAN DOC...
wiggs
Jun 2023
#21
How is this fucker walking free? If that were ANYONE ELSE they'd be locked up long ago.
onecaliberal
Jun 2023
#23
There's no telling whether the document mentioned in the recording even exists.
ShazzieB
Jun 2023
#30
2.5 billion lets bring in Kusher.....and the gang.....and ask some questions....
turbinetree
Jun 2023
#33
"Trump on Thursday said he didn't know anything about the summer 2021 meeting...."
riversedge
Jun 2023
#39